MediaMente: Oliver Selfridge

Oliver Selfridge

Interview

"From cybernetics to neural networks" (Milano - SMAU, 22/09/95)

Biography

Selfridge left England when he was 14 years old to study in the USA with the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the "father of cybernetics". In the 1940s Selfridge, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts contributed to establishing the theoretical bases of neural networks.

Then, with Marvin Minsky, he began the first research into Artificial Intelligence, a challenge which he is still engaged in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where for many years he has been the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab.